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Meanings of fortification in English
Military constructions and buildings designed for defense in warfare and military bases.
Spanish
fortificación General term for any works made to support a small number of troops defending against against a greater.
Related terms
Defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it.
Synonyms
Examples for "munition"
Examples for "munition"
1
A piddling string of munition factories in New York and New Jersey.
2
And the munition workers were forced to submit their appeal in writing.
3
So, in the end, she did not go to the munition works.
4
The Treaty provides authority for the disarming of certain chemical munition plants.
5
There are two thousand munition factories in England and more under construction.
Usage of fortification in English
1
General Campan will move through the wood to seize the first fortification.
2
This table compares the three degrees of fortification used in Spanish culverins:
3
This completed the circuit of the new fortification of the Great Camp.
4
The wall in the background is part of the original border fortification.
5
A cupola crowning a corner tower; an interesting example of decorative fortification.
6
Before the twenty-three towers on the fortification stood twenty-three others of wood.
7
The third fortification of this exposition is furnished by the following fact.
8
If explosives should be used for anything it is for creating fortification.
9
There is an immense fortification now in progress of erection behind Ulm.
10
On the top of the largest, there was something resembling a fortification.
11
Nutrient intakes were estimated including fortification in foods, but excluding dietary supplements.
12
Hasan, the Janizary, of gigantic stature and strength, ascended the outward fortification.
13
He stopped, and again uttered an exclamation as he approached the fortification.
14
He here erected a fortification, with the appropriate name of Fort Recovery.
15
This Forerunner fortification must have been where the governor's scans located Hekabe.
16
Now, this wall, the one that Hadrian built, was a real fortification.
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Translations for fortification
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